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Amy Klobuchar Talks Health Care, Israel and, Yes, That Comb
Source: New York Times
Amy Klobuchar Talks Health Care, Israel and, Yes, That Comb
By Maggie Astor
March 9, 2019
There was no real doubt what the first question to Senator Amy Klobuchar would be.
Backstage at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Tex., where Ms. Klobuchar was the first in a series of presidential candidates to be interviewed on Saturday, the interviewer, Kara Swisher, asked: Do you want to start with the comb or end with the comb?
Were going to start with the comb, Ms. Swisher, the co-founder of the technology news website Recode and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, concluded.
The comb was a reference to a February New York Times article about how Ms. Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, treats her staff in the Senate. In 2008, The Times reported, an aide bought her a salad in an airport but fumbled the plastic utensils. On the plane, Ms. Klobuchar berated the aide, pulled a comb out of her purse and ate the salad with it.
It was me sort of doing a mom thing, Ms. Klobuchar responded at Saturdays event, co-sponsored by The Texas Tribune. I didnt have a fork. I used a comb to eat a salad very briefly on a plane in a MacGyver move.
-snip-
By Maggie Astor
March 9, 2019
There was no real doubt what the first question to Senator Amy Klobuchar would be.
Backstage at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Tex., where Ms. Klobuchar was the first in a series of presidential candidates to be interviewed on Saturday, the interviewer, Kara Swisher, asked: Do you want to start with the comb or end with the comb?
Were going to start with the comb, Ms. Swisher, the co-founder of the technology news website Recode and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, concluded.
The comb was a reference to a February New York Times article about how Ms. Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, treats her staff in the Senate. In 2008, The Times reported, an aide bought her a salad in an airport but fumbled the plastic utensils. On the plane, Ms. Klobuchar berated the aide, pulled a comb out of her purse and ate the salad with it.
It was me sort of doing a mom thing, Ms. Klobuchar responded at Saturdays event, co-sponsored by The Texas Tribune. I didnt have a fork. I used a comb to eat a salad very briefly on a plane in a MacGyver move.
-snip-
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-2020-staff-interview.html
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Amy Klobuchar Talks Health Care, Israel and, Yes, That Comb (Original Post)
Eugene
Mar 2019
OP
This is one of those stories that doesn't sound better when you explain it.
LongtimeAZDem
Mar 2019
#3
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)1. I would have eaten the salad with my fingers. nt
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)5. And if I used a comb would of cleaned it myself! Nt
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marylandblue
(12,344 posts)2. Will every interview with Klobuchar be about combs now?
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LongtimeAZDem
(4,494 posts)3. This is one of those stories that doesn't sound better when you explain it.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
CrossingTheRubicon
(731 posts)4. I like her resourcefulness.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden